just so they can avoid paying american taxes so functionally their tax rate is zero i don't see where that has caused them to start building highways or or broadband systems or light posts in neighborhoods well that's people using these corporate income tax loopholes and they're doing that so that they can invest what they have in creating jobs and creating profits so it's not a do it infrastructure they have no incentive to be able to produce the profits that can be taxed to produce the infrastructure that work where you're now or in the browser you're not me where where are these ideas are these corporations building infrastructure there's a complete lack of incentive that exists for the corporations to build the infrastructure the government has a ever built infrastructure of private roads existed for the most part for the first couple hundred years of our own not going to trust my farm to your farm when we were allowed to use private term pikes that connected towns to other towns that were fifty miles apart or that existed before only has really few and far between in public well it was also not only because of the duration but they were among the

first things that they found yet the other wasn't telling you is that the incentive for a company to come out just built these things is completely socked away because the government has taxed everybody to build these things and provide them there was never and so you don't pay my way it's a limb by the way we live here in the in this this bubble d.c. and i have not noticed a shortage of of construction projects now we can argue about the amount of lanes that might be needed out of the capital beltway and three ninety five but there is construction happening all over the place when you look at infrastructure and i think this is about the big problem is right now is when you get the government considering improper and propositions and budgets like the representative. congressman ellison progressive budget you get away from the government talking about what must be done and what could be done instead of saying oh we must build a bridge here they think well my gosh look at all this new revenue they were sucking out of the economy think about all the bridges we could build and those aren't permanent jobs and those. are necessary jobs and we tend to forget about the

money that's taken to build a bridge we only could build and not a bridge that we need is money being taken away from somebody else whether it's being taken from corporate profits or it's taken from my income taxes that money is affecting my economic decision is you're not going to make that money if a bridge doesn't take customers to your commute guess what we just saw all this to shovel ready projects back in two thousand and nine we just solve this big infrastructure investment and it didn't pan into this huge job created started we were we were losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month that i didn't believe had turned out a year which over thirty. consecutive well yes traditionally there is little bridge at the end of the year retail that started with the george washington administration to today know of obviously that's absurd but throughout the history of america we've said there's this thing called the commons we have common roads like i said article one section eight provides for the poor for the manufacture of the disputing the ok so you know we have to you know i think all of our system should be passed. let's say we didn't keep elton's way let's say he's out there and

he gets all the bridges built all this stuff so those are temporary jobs now where's the other jobs come from what happens when those jobs and we just. ready projects that it did not turn into long term job creation it absolutely says it you know i'm going to simulate i would i would disagree that it did because if you look at the labor force participation rate that hasn't returned the actual unemployment rate for simming that the same number of people were actually trying to enter the labor force is when george w. bush was president and i'm not it was somewhat residency the actual unemployment rate with the labor force participation rate at the rate that it is it's closer to ten and a half percent i don't disagree at all in fact i'd say it's closer to fourteen percent and that of your point was that if we build all these bridges and two trillion dollars of the bridges somehow if we could magically do that a year at the end of the year all those jobs are gone i don't disagree with you actually you know i disagree with you just a minute ago i would i didn't i didn't get your point but that that point made i would say two things number one. it's going to take a hell of

a lot more than one year to repair two trillion dollars worth of infrastructure and number two once that infrastructure is in place again go to any other developed country in the world or simply look around in america at all the stuff that was built over the lot you talk about the city the city was built over the last two hundred years all and it used to be a swamp so you know we collectively built this city and now there's a place where the spine museum can open a retail shop but right i mean it's like small businesses grow they put their roots into the soil of infrastructure sure but the infrastructure has to be built and we're going to hear as i did all this way across the country to put this myth exists that if we invest in infrastructure which looks sexy at the time we're spending a lot of money we can go down on the job site look there's these people working and you get to see if you get some value out of it no this is what happens when you have plus it's sort of all around the hospital or a way to produce and they remedy the little schuler's two years and look sexy when they run for reelection you know what i am all in favor of spending money on

schools and that's something that we're doing in this country we're actually spend more than any other country per capita per student and that's resulted in really pad test scores for like the past twenty years so i don't think that the government is the most effective investor of this money sure there might be a need for bridges but the government when it takes this money when it's taking forty thirty nine forty percent of it is not just the profit the most for capita per student in fact ins in singapore and citizenry the two countries that have the best educational outcomes in the world teachers are paid more than doctors well that's the teacher's salary i'm talking about overall spending on education i mean we're spending a ton of money on education we're very wealthy country and we have huge property taxes locally to pay for education it's not panning out the thing is is that able to structure our very first structures to worry the most effective infrastructure to be the most effective has to have businesses willing to use that infrastructure and when you're taxing people at the highest rate in the world they're not going to use the big beautiful american infrastructure and they're going to use the japanese emperor starcade just made. and there is our stories are all we are all the thirty

four industrialized countries in the world we are second from the bottom in terms of the taxes that corporations actually pay right because the rate so high they're not paying taxes here they're exploiting loopholes and they're moving overseas so they're not paying the taxes here but you're looking at the net aggregate islands that are being paid and of course you're going to make less money on a forty percent tax rate versus a twenty percent tax rate all of that's why our net aggregate their arms are lower there they're drilling they're drilling loopholes in our tax loopholes and lower their overseas let's talk about overshot as jimmy carter said he went to venezuela the carter center checked out the elections both the elections that chavez and the response and said cleanest he's ever seen in fact they were you know they were unable to verify some of the elections in the united states cleaner than an american elections. took all this oil wealth that he used to build schools to lift people out of poverty and actually did the poverty rate has declined radically halmos has declined radically people are healthier people are you know all the indices of a healthy society. but with you here in canada it's pretty popular it's low

but so all that sort of chavez you know he got elected with a big majority i mean bigger majorities than any president the united states has been elected a long long time what's easy to do when you're censoring the media and always that censor in the media there's a very very active and aggressive i think that's kind of a matter of opinion because there are several other people that say that he has made taken several initiatives to kind of silence the opposition the media but to get back to the point of us not the overall health of venezuela i mean there if you can certainly dealing with the huge outbreak of dengue fever they're dealing with curable disease in their own miami right now there are massive outbreaks of diseases that are perfectly curable because the government sure is not curable there is no cure for it there are there are preventative measures and we don't have huge outbreaks of anger and then if you were is traveling it's moving out of the editorial regions as a consequence of global warming i mean you want to talk about dengue fever talk there i was right on exxon mobil i don't think that the government is in the best position to centrally planned the way this. monies spent what she hugo chavez did

was say i know better than you but i could spend this why the baddies and cat instead of socializing nationalize all these industries but right now you know he's nationalized the agriculture industry and they have flour shortages are not going to make bread without the flour we give the work for free i decided state what do you say by our government what a homegrown smart move what he said was the oil under the ground off our shores is the property of our country and when we pump that oil he did the exact very similar to what sarah palin did you know over chavez sarah palin sarah palin wrote a check for two thousand dollars to every single person live don't last from the alaska permanent fund which was taking money from the oil reserve that that's terrible policy it's your you do screw the policy but see i most as sarah palin fan i think the job as sarah palin policy about one person of this nation is now i've never thought of that nationally ok all right this is a well we'll leave it that big box retailer cosco they had a profit of five hundred thirty seven million last quarter up from three hundred

ninety million in the same quarter last year so they're doing good and their c.e.o. jack craig jelinek just suggested to our lawmakers to congress that the minimum wage should not go to the nine dollars that obama called for in his words stated the union address as i recall it instead it should go to ten dollars and ten cents . makes sense though it doesn't affect you know if i'm a businessman and his position i'm going to want to push it up to ten eleven twelve i'm going to put my competitors out of business i may not be able to bring wal-mart or sam's club but i'll be able to do you know the average joe average worker hoss go just to your point so that people know you're talking about your average worker cosco last year in two thousand and eleven last year we have numbers for made forty five grand the average worker wal-mart makes seventeen thousand five hundred ok so that doesn't change the point where this guy's actually going to create higher unemployment by supporting a policy that he was making money forty five thousand dollars which is going to hire all these people that are put out of work. we should be more they were very

happy for everyone to cosco those benefiting for the success of that business but at the end of the day we've got this big problem in this country where we see oh my gosh look how well john is doing and we tend to forget how bad fred sally and susie are doing or how the policies that are benefiting john say why are those three this is why we're to the highest we know it's not it's not is it why do we give corporations things like the right to write off meals and limited liability why don't we give them all those forced them to pay such a high wage scale when i was just i was just simply do i do we do we give them a lot of tax breaks because this town the bubble that's created this town is corporations are hanging obviously about it i'm talking about a limited liability the basis of a corporation why do we say you can do business this way we do it because it's going to work in the public good there's a you know this from the founding of this republic is only one let's doing this this is congress this is elected officials this is it it's not so it was sort of the american government is not your government you know it's my government but i'll tell you the answer i make no it's not there at the idea of not voting at the end

of the day we've got to get back to the point that a lot of these states are in even with the infrastructure projects that in then they also raising the minimum wage it comes back to this inherent economic fallacy where we only kind of look at joe construction worker at no. point was more policy if we're even given all these benefits to corporations in the hopes that they'll operate in the public good shouldn't we at least have some threshold for that should we say if you can't afford to pay somebody ten dollars and ten cents an hour you have no right to own business right and so we're going to tell that person that would be employed by the person making less than ten dollars ten cents an hour you're not entitled to the job that could be provided to all your logic is flawed you're assuming that people get their jobs out of their goodness their heart they don't let's say that they do get this ten dollars minimum wage jobs i would highly predict that there's going to be hired employment you're never going to be happy and you will not have have any examples in history of this we'll look at it but i really. thank you thanks for having us professor. after the break the taliban is in washington and they're holding our government hostage all explains that i village

rick. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia that every profit out of it is a very high return on investment. is good though i mean he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that when they come i mean that is i knew the managers who changed their name and strategy about it and just tell the same murderous. high ranking suspects you know coming. pretty upset about that mr president is soon. to president putin. but the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no.

investigation is a dead. end up and says i'm sick and stuff your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. regards from synch i've never heard of such a case as ours are so much money and gold has stolen so many years. for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. .

welcome back yesterday almost every republican on the senate judiciary committee voted against a lot of crackdown on gun traffickers but one surprising group of gun the gun retailers doesn't agree with the g.o.p.'s opposition to the new federal gun control

laws korda think progress eighty eight percent of gun retailers recommended stronger sentences for gun trafficking and recommended a specific sentence for an individual convicted of buying fifty firearms for a trafficking operation and four hundred seventy eight of the five hundred ninety one retailers surveyed recommended a sentence of ten years or a fine of fifty thousand dollars and nearly eighty percent of those question recommended both jail time and fine once again we see that public opinion even of those in the gun industry is completely opposite of what the n.r.a. the front group for the gun manufacturers and the republicans want us to believe they don't represent gun owners or even gun dealers they only care about gun lobby money from major gun manufacturers but the good news here is that the gun measures received enough votes despite republican opposition to send the bill out of committee. just.

the. is the good the bad of the very very lateral miss the only ugly good elizabeth warren the rookie senator from massachusetts kept her winning streak going tuesday when she lambasted congressional republicans for once again blocking the confirmation of richard cordray as head of the consumer financial protection bureau lawrence comments were straight into the point quote the american people deserve a congress that worries less about helping big banks and more about helping regular people who have been cheated on mortgages on credit cards on student loans on credit records a strong consumer financial protection bureau is necessary to keep the big banks of the predatory lenders who wrecked our economy in line without a forceful leader like cordray it's just another directionless washington agency the fact that republicans won't even bring his nomination to

a vote demonstrates the true extent of their allegiance to wall street and big business in this age of austerity and crony capitalism the american people deserve representatives like senator warren who tell it like it is good on you senator warren lucky to have the bad pat fagan. so nobody really expects pat fagan and his colleagues at the family research council to provide insightful policy analysis but his tuesday appearance in washington watch was an embarrassment even by his own mind numbing standards fagan the single most destructive decision in the history of court was in one thousand nine hundred seventy two when the court officially recognized the right of unmarried partners to obtain contraceptives eisenstadt who says. that's right buying condoms for me him is worse than stealing elections which is what the court did in bush v gore and worse thing categorizing people as property which the court did in eight hundred fifty seven with dred scott

what were these people live. and the very very ugly steve emerson what he didn't know the bugs the brotherhood runs america or your right wing conspiracy theorist extraordinary steve emerson a muslim brotherhood has penetrated virtually all institutions of the united states would layer on where they learned a lot of the department of justice hollywood the media the state department the publishing industry. actually steve it's the other way around the n.y.p.d. and other police departments across the country have spent the last decade infiltrating the muslim communities across the country tearing apart friendships destroying any hope of a normal life the fact the right wing nut jobs jobs like emerson continue to promote the worst sort of islamophobia lies at the same time as law enforcement agencies treat the entire american muslim community as a fifth column is just pure. crazy

alert with the world cup a year away soccer fans all over are getting their tapes together in a last ditch effort to try and steal a spot on their national team check up the skills of this fifth. the cat lives in japan but we think you could give the american goalie the american military power to run for his money.

the republican taliban has offered its budget taliban really television work well the way that the actual taliban works is they keep people stupid women are witches jews are another species westerners are degenerate all of the wise and powerful taliban leaders know what the koran really says because they're the only ones who can read write or tell anybody else what's real. there was a time when the muslim world was in white they invented the writing and math that we use today they were the center of the world for science but then in some places the taliban took over and don't for a minute think it's really all about religion religion is used to manipulate the useful idiots it's really about money power and control and that can only be held by thugs like the taliban when the people are kept poor and stupid. here in

america there's a new taliban rise they fetishizing guns just like the afghan taliban they fear women just like the afghan taliban and they hate education just like the afghan taliban they want to keep the people stupid and in chains. here in america the plutocrats and the billionaires who rose to power on the heels of reagan's trickle down economics and now it's trickling down to the rest of the nation is stupid as mark morford wrote for the san francisco chronicle's blog the eight six percent of americans believe in unicorns thirty six percent believe in u.f.o.'s a whopping twenty four percent believe dinosaurs and man hung out together eighteen percent still believe the sun revolves around the earth nearly thirty percent believe cloud computing involves actual clouds a shockingly sad eighteen percent of this very day believe the president is a muslim you believe in angels forty five percent of americans do in fact roughly

forty eight percent republicans democrats alike believe in some form of creationism . so why do americans believe in such absurd things well because we're being taught these ridiculous beliefs in our nation's schools and hearing them from our corporate ty's media all across america our children are learning from the curriculums put out by the plutocrats and the billionaires in louisiana for example children learn about how hippies were dirty rock musicians worship satan and climate change just one big lie but america's new taliban isn't just controlling what's being taught in our classrooms they're also dictating what's been shown on america's billionaire back to corporate ties media that's where the likes of rupert murdoch come in thanks to murdoch millions of americans are subjected to the mountains of misinformation and half truths the poor out of fox so-called news on a daily basis used to be a time in our country when the mainstream media actually had to report on the news

but times have changed in one nine hundred eighty six reagan ended the f.c.c. doctrine that required radio and t.v. stations to actually carry real news as a public service and within two years of that time the money losing news divisions of the networks had become had come under the network entertainment divisions and all the news decisions since then have been made based not on what's news or what people need to know but on ratings oh and the following year rush limbaugh started his radio show and now plutocrat extraordinary as they call brothers are looking to buy several major american newspapers so that they can dictate what americans read in the morning paper the koch topos is interested in buying the tribune company newspapers which includes the chicago tribune the baltimore sun and the los angeles times created a hollywood reporter the koch to pose as quote a quote quote interested in the clout they could gain through the times editorial pages and quote now i can talk about all this openly here because most of the

people who will vote for the new american taliban don't bother to inform themselves with the real news don't and gay. in critical thinking and don't want to know what's really going on in the world stuff we talk about on the show. love their ignorance their bigotry and most of all their fox news from thomas jefferson to john kennedy we have always as a nation held high the ideal of a quality education for everybody as jefferson wrote in a letter george with his mentor and seven hundred eighty six i think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people no other sure foundation committee of eyes for the preservation of freedom and happiness preach my dear sir a crusade against ignorance establish and improve the law for educating the common people j.f.k. championed the importance of education as well. the american people all of us review one hundred. one or two thirds of every new hospital the national government

we pay fifty five percent of all the research done we help young men become doctors . we are concerned with the progress of this country this is the only way we can secure action to keep this country moving ahead to have places to educate our children to have decent housing to do something about the millions of young children who leave our schools before they graduate. today america faces a choice we could have our country over to the new taliban and watch as the plutocrats and billionaires consolidate even more wealth power and control over information in our country. or we can fight for progressive america where there is universal high quality education for all a strong social safety net and a broad and strong middle class is choice looms large in the current budget debate

the republican budget cuts funding to education cuts the social safety net and makes the rich richer while making the poor and the middle class poorer meanwhile the democratic budget requires the rich to pay something a little bit closer to their fair share and uses those funds to strengthen education the social safety net and frankly the middle class so america it's up to you your choice do you want the billionaire backed republican tala banning control or democratic america where unicorns and dinosaurs are only talked about in children's fantasy books. and that's the way it is tonight wednesday march thirteenth two thousand and thirteen for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites at tom harkin dot com or. if you missed any of the night show you can now watch on hulu at hulu dot com slash the big picture also check out our two youtube channel is there a link to tarpon dot com also a target i'm sure all are there for ways you can send us your feedback and don't

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potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast is expected to hit starting in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more color. blind there's still a lot of snow out here the place for snowball fight. jason it is going to be pretty

incredible today there and even record snowfall throughout what's been like. three drugs and some urgency. hitler. or any.